These are the typical diurnal winds, best developed in medium to low latitudes, related to the daytime warming and nighttime cooling of the land, while the sea-surface temperature remains almost constant. Local (or tertiary class) circulations are thus established (Fig. 1). Various local names are used, e.g., marinada in Catalonia.
Average daily period of the air pressure on 20 sea-breeze days at the Baltic Sea. The solid line refers to Swinemunde: the dashed line refers to Adlergrund Lightship (after Defant, 1951).
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Fairbridge, R.W., Oliver, J.E. (1987). Land and sea breezes. In: Climatology. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30749-4_104
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